The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-10-20
OUR MAN ON THE OUTSIDE.
CHIPS FROM IA. HATCHETT.

OUR MAN ON THE OUTSIDE.
CHIPS FROM A. HATCHETT.
GRAND OPENING SALE AT D. Y. COOPER s
NEW MAMMOTH WAREHOUSE.
| Last Friday was big day in the bust
ness circles of Henderson. D. Y. Cooper,
the oldest, most popular and successful
warehouseman in the State, upon the COM
pletion of his most elegantly lighted and
commodious warehouse, desiring to give
| some token of gratitude for the past pat
| ronage of tobacco growers scattered over
several States, and wishing to give addi-
tiona1 stimulus for the growing of fine to-
| baccO, announced that a number of valu-
able presents, wagons, harness, &C., would
be given away to those having the finest to-
bacco On sale. The result was what might
have been expected our streets were
crowded with wagons, and the entire ware
house floor, two hundred and twenty feet
long by one hundred wide, was covered
with good and fine grades of the golden
leaf. Think of it-over thirteen hundred
ID,
representing two States and seventeen
counties-undoubted the largest and
finest display of tobacco ever seen on one
floor, and selling for prices without par
allel in the history of the tobacco trade
In one row there were twenty-one piles,
aggregating 635 lbs, that brought $67S.3O
or an average per hundred pounds of
ri in
800 90 and the highest (of which there were
severaD $4,000. The committee selected
for the purpose, gave the first award to G.
F. Evans. second to N. II. Fleming, third
II. Ellington, fourth A. Fleming, and fifth
to T. V. Avent. These awards were all
made on different grades of tobacco from
fancy white wrappers to cutters.
This thirteen hundred and odd piles of
tobacco was sold in the short time of four
hours and a quarter, yet the house was so
perfectly lighted, no piles were neglected
and everybody went home pleased beyond
their expectations, while the merchants
sold more goods for the ready money than
in many day. 1t took thousands of dol
lars to pay for this sale, but it is always on
hand at this house, and as the sale pro-
crossed, each man was paid off as soon as
his tobacco was sold. From out the vast
crowd, the GOLD LEAF got many new sub
scribers, to whom this notice is unnecessary
to fasten that sale upon their memory.
Herr Andres Alpine Choir and Tyrolese
company gave our musical and theatre going
| of oil m
Saturday night. Though they came here
the worst night in the week and few
| nights after the deception and swindling
| of a company whose conduct made many
| Of our people sore upon the subject of
| theatres, yet there was fair house in num-
Der, composed of ministers, the other pro-
| LESSONS and our best and most cultivated
people. Never before in the history of
| Henderson has there been so good per-
Torrance of that character here, or one
tn 1t gave so universal satisfaction. Com
| petent critics place Fraulein Dagmar
| HeckeIl's voice and rendition in the Louise
Kellogg class whose full equal she is.
| Fraulein Majors contraltO far excelled
anything ever heard here, and the singing
|
company was above criticism.
We are in receipt of the annual address
Of W. W. H. Thackston, NJ. D., D. D. S.,
President of the Southern Dental Associa-
ton, delivered before the association at
Fortress Monroe ON August 29th, last. The
Doctor is the Oldest living graduate of
dentistry il. the world, and has long held
top place in his profession, but his repu-
tation as an orator has been reserved fCr
his ripe old age, when in the address re-
ferred to, he not only showed himself fully
acquainted with the science of his profes-
sion from the dawn of civilization, but by
a happy application of ancient lore to the
wants of the present, in language ornate
and euphonious, he stamped himself as al
orator of eloquence rarely surpassed. His
address will be appreciated not only BY
Dentists, but by every lover of the beauti
full and grand.
A burglar entered the store house of Mr.
j. E. Burroughs at Dabney on Monday
night. The entrance was effected by cut
ting out the front glass. The young clerk
Mr. Lyman Barnes, who sleeps over tn
store, heard the noise and seizing his pis
toll, came down alone, opened the door ant
entered without light. Catching
. glimpse of the thief making his escap
through the open door, he fired on him ant
pursued him to the Oxford depot. firing a
he ran. AS yet it is not known who tn
party was, but the presesce of two suspl
cious characters there in the evening viii
doubtless lead to the arrest of the guilt
person. A small amount Of money an
two pistols were the only articles missing
Passengers on the excursion train fror
Oxford this morning brought us the sa
things of the death of Mrs. Frank Royste
of that place this morning at five O'CLOCK
We are just going to press and have nj
3 space to pay a deserved tribute to he
memory.